Abstract
The information revolution of recent decades is a world historical event that is changing the lives of individuals, societies and economies and with major implications for science, research and learning. It offers profound opportunities to explore phenomena that were hitherto beyond our power to resolve, and at the same time is undermining the process whereby concurrent publication of scientific concept and evidence (data) permitted scrutiny, replication and refutation and that has been the bedrock of scientific progress and of ‘self-correction’ since the inception of the first scientific journals in the 17th century. Open publication, release and sharing of data are vital habits that need to be redefined and redeveloped for the modern age by the research community if it is to exploit technological opportunities, maintain self-correction and maximize the contribution of research to human understanding and welfare.
Highlights
The information revolution of recent decades is a world historical event that is changing the lives of individuals, societies and economies and with major implications for science, research and learning
It was the brainchild of Henry Oldenburg, the first secretary of the newly formed Royal Society, and an inveterate correspondent on matters scientific. Rather than keep his correspondence private, he thought it would be a good idea to publish it, and persuaded the new Society to do so by creating the journal. He required of his correspondents that to be published, their concept must be accompanied by the evidence on which it was based
The bound book and journal are still the basic tools of the trade of many of our libraries and of those that staff them. Both tend to be consolidated in single large edifices, even though in science at least, electronic access anywhere, any time, is the norm, dispersed support from appropriately trained e-librarians is the need, and few scientists darken the door of a conventional library
Summary
The information revolution of recent decades is a world historical event that is changing the lives of individuals, societies and economies and with major implications for science, research and learning. Release and sharing of data are vital habits that need to be redefined and redeveloped for the modern age by the research community if it is to exploit technological opportunities, maintain selfcorrection and maximize the contribution of research to human understanding and welfare
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